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100 1  Ruth, Greg,|d1986-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n2021002047|eauthor. 
245 10 Tennis :|ba history from American amateurs to global 
       professionals /|cGreg Ruth. 
264  1 Urbana :|bUniversity of Illinois Press,|c[2021] 
300    1 online resource (xii, 317 pages). 
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490 1  Sport and society 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Introduction: Tennis amateurs and tennis professionals -- 
       Amateur Associations along the American Atlantic Coast -- 
       The West Coast game -- The cause célèbre of the pioneering
       professional -- Depression-Era developments in amateur and
       professional tennis -- Wartime Southern California 
       professionals -- The cultural contexts of mid-century 
       women's tennis -- The "Kramer Karavan" -- The world 
       champion from "The Wrong Side of the Tracks" -- Tennis 
       Opens -- The rise and demise of world championship tennis 
       -- The impact of sports agents and agencies on 
       professional tennis -- Women's professional tennis in the 
       early Open era -- Conclusion: Professional tennis as 
       global entertainment. 
520    "The arrival of the Open era in 1968 was a watershed in 
       the history of tennis--the year that marked its advent as 
       a professionalized sport. Merging wide-angle history with 
       individual stories of players and off-the-court figures, 
       Greg Ruth charts tennis's evolution into the game we watch
       today. His vivid account moves from the cloistered world 
       of nineteenth-century lawn tennis through the longtime 
       amateur-professional divide and the battles over 
       commercialization that raged from the 1920s until 1968. 
       From there, Ruth details the post-1968 expansion of the 
       game as it was transformed by bankable superstars, a 
       popular women's tour, rival governing bodies, and 
       sponsorship money. What emerges is a fascinating history 
       of the economics and politics that made tennis a decisive,
       if unlikely, force in the creation of modern-day sports 
       entertainment. Comprehensive and engaging, this book tells
       the interlocking stories of the figures and factors that 
       birthed the professional game"--|cProvided by publisher. 
588    Description based on online resource; title from digital 
       title page (viewed on August 18, 2021). 
590    eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic 
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650  0 Tennis players.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
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650  0 Women tennis players.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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650  0 Tennis|xTournaments.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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655  4 Electronic books. 
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655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919896 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aRuth, Greg, 1986-|tTennis|dUrbana : 
       University of Illinois Press, [2021]|z9780252043895|w(DLC)
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